Pluto TV Stopped Working

[Aleksas123]

Aleksas123 last edited by

Since it works in Chrome and Vivaldi but fails across Opera One, GX and Developer, could this be related to an Opera-specific media or DRM integration rather than Widevine itself?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Aleksas123 last edited by

@Aleksas123 That was the thought at first, but a dev found some Pluto code that purposely disables playback if it detects Opera. Modifying the Javascript makes things work in Opera. We here and Opera have to reach out to Pluto to fix it.

I can provide details later when I get a chance. And, I’ll see if there’s a workaround since the —user-agent switch isn’t enough to fool Pluto.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Pluto TV Stopped Working:

I can provide details later when I get a chance.

In both https://player-services.pluto.tv/1.42.2/smart-tag/smart.tag.js and https://player-services.pluto.tv/1.42.2/smart-tag-data-service/smart.tag.data.service.js?cb=71, there's:

OPERA:{disable:!0}

where is should be:

OPERA: {minVersion: 15}

for example.

While that sounds like something that just deals with smart tags, it appears to cause Opera to get that error.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

As a workaround for now, you can download my "Mask_as_Chrome_on_Pluto_tv.zip" from here, extract it, goto the URL opera://extensions, turn on developer mode, click "load unpacked" and point it to the extracted folder where manifest.json is at. Then, at the URL opera://extensions, enable "Allow access to search page results" for the extension. And, if you want to use it in a private window, enable incognito mode for the extension.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I tried reporting this issue to Pluto, but they said that Opera is currently not supported and wouldn't listen and didn't care.

The good news is that an awesome Opera dev made a browser.js fix to work around Pluto blocking Opera. It's in the new 135.0.5973.76 build that just came out.

[maxin2003]

maxin2003 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
hi i just tried the paramount plus variant of this and it just... doesn't work, any help would be very much appreciated

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @maxin2003 last edited by

@maxin2003 There is one already?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @maxin2003 last edited by

@maxin2003 I don't have a paramountplus account to fully test. I might be able to borrow someone's later and check.

My extension at https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/1wqrf5m/comment/pf0a3x8/ for the paramount workaround is set to run on the paramountplus.com domain and its subdomains. Maybe there are some other domains it needs to run on too.

A fix from Opera should be coming soon. If you search for "paramount" in Opera's siteprefs.json and browser.js files in the "resources" folder in the latest version folder in Opera's install folder and paramount is in there, you should have the fix from Opera. It's not in them for me yet though.

[maxin2003]

maxin2003 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 its there, in the latest version, which i have updated to. it still does not work

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @maxin2003 last edited by

@maxin2003 I don't see the fix being mentioned on the changelog. I also don't see paramountplus.com on siteprefs.json or browser.js

[theodoreashford]

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[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

In 137.0.6036.39, after going to opera://about a bunch of times, I'm finally seeing paramountplus in browser.js under "Sources" in dev tools. So, I'm getting the fix in the patched browser.js in the user data folder at least.

However, it just causes the page to turn black. Disabling browser.js at the URL opera://browserjs allows the paramountplus page to load right again. Can't test any videos at the moment though.